Medal Components Recovered From The Destroyed Zimmermann Factory Auction dated January 1944

dated January 1944

There are six brown plastic buttons spaced at various intervals around the waistline

emboss stamped "90" on the underside at the receiving clip end

A City of Rome Medal of Merit

Nickel plated case

Medal Components Recovered From The Destroyed Zimmermann Factory Auction dated January 1944Includes various dies, suspensions and insignia, in bronze. Fire damaged, fair. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals. Some were in good condition, but most of the